— Each year, hundreds of people in high-income countries take their own lives while they are in prison. Thousands engage in self-harm and thousands abuse other prisoners. Such behaviours often correlate with mental health problems, but they are also often pleas for help and for hope. Some courts have invoked the ideas of hope and the right to hope in the context of life imprisonment, but they have neither subjected the concept of hope to sustained analysis nor specified the role that hope should play in our practices of lawful punishment overall. This article offers a preliminary investigation of the role for hope in lawful punishment. It argues that one standard that both individual modes of punishment and overall systems of punishment must meet to be morally justifiable is that they be compatible with a reasonable person retaining hope both in the present and for his future after punishment. Such a hope standard narrows the scope of legitimate modes of punishment.

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惩罚与珍贵的情感：惩罚的希望标准

— 每年，高收入国家的数百人在狱中自杀。数千人自残，数千人虐待其他囚犯。这种行为通常与心理健康问题有关，但它们也常常是请求帮助和希望。一些法院在无期徒刑的背景下援引了希望和希望权的概念，但没有对希望的概念进行持续的分析，也没有具体说明希望在我们依法惩处的实践中应该发挥的作用。本文对希望在合法惩罚中的作用进行了初步调查。它认为，个人的惩罚方式和整体的惩罚系统都必须符合道德上合理的一个标准，即它们与一个理性的人兼容，在现在和惩罚后的未来都保持希望。这种希望标准缩小了合法惩罚方式的范围。